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You asked people to read section 230 and you claimed that section 230 says absolutely nothing about impartiality.

I read section 230 and mentioned parts of it that I think are relevant to impartiality. In particular, I don't see how you maximize user control over the information they receive if information providers are going to be partial to one political party. And I don't see how you have forums for a true diversity of political discourse if forums are going to be partial to one political party.

If you can tell me, I would love to know, how do Twitter's actions in this case maximize user control over the information they receive? I don't think they do, I think it is quite the opposite of that, but go ahead and make a case if you have one.

Now it is true that the implementation of section 230 lacks an enforcement mechanism to enforce the policies that it advocates. That's a problem with the law, and it is what some people are advocating that we fix. I agree with those proposals, I would like to see section 230 amended so that companies that don't maximize user control over the information they receive lost section 230 protections. And the same thing for companies that don't allow a true diversity of political discourse.

To me, "It is the policy of the United States ... to encourage the development of technologies which maximize user control over what information is received by individuals, families, and schools who use the Internet and other interactive computer services" implies impartiality, as does the description of the internet as, among other things, "a forum for a true diversity of political discourse".

Companies that control what information users can receive in order to allow only one side of a political discourse are in opposition to the policies being implemented in section 230.

Well my parents didn't do that and I still got a skateboard.

At what age should a kid be allowed to buy a skateboard?

"only 40%"

Step out of your bubble and think about what it would mean if 40% of Americans worked from home full time.

It can be done, we've seen that, now people are running the numbers and seeing what that means. Pre-covid it was something like 3% that worked from home at least half the time.

If 3% turns into 40% - or even 20% or 6% - that starts to change things.

I think the last friend I made by first meeting them in person was in the early 90's - people I knew from my home town.

Every one since then was someone I knew online for many years first.

For me, plugging it in worked flawlessly, getting it to work with Bluetooth took some fiddling.

Got it to work but it was one of those Linux things where I don't know what I did to get it to work, but it works now, and the next time I set up a new machine, it will be another few more hours of my life.

But yeah Wacom Intuos + Krita = so much fun.

Have you made your last friend or could you make different ones if you moved somewhere else?

The comment mentioned Facebook but that doesn't mean you should compare Facebook salaries in San Jose to non-Facebook salaries in Dallas.

Compare Facebook salaries in San Jose to Facebook salaries in Dallas, that would be a fair comparison. Compare median salaries in San Jose to median salaries in Dallas, that would be a fair comparison.

Compare Facebook salaries in San Jose to median salaries in Dallas, that is not a fair comparison and you know that, you are wasting my time by making me type it out for you, you know full well that that is not a fair comparison.

According to the resource that was used for Dallas salaries, 150K is the average San Jose salary.

That's hilarious. They make the battery impossible to replace for consumers and then you need a new phone every two years and you see that as a feature.

AAPL is a strong buy.

>> L4 total comp at Google, or E4 salaries at Facebook, is about $260K/year ... Average total comp for a software engineer in Dallas is $110K/year

You're using average (median I hope) salary for Dallas vs. high end salaries for San Jose.

You used indeed.com for the Dallas salaries, if you use them for San Jose you get an average of 150K. Too lazy to run the numbers but obviously that would change the calculation quite a bit.

Who gets to decide what is a political search and what isn't?

And why do they get to decide that?

> the prefrontal cortex doesn't finish developing in healthy adult humans until around the age of 25

Another way to look at this is that if you are young, you only have until the age of 25 until your brain deteriorates to the point that you are incapable of taking real risks.

> Google search is barely political

Search for "american mathematician" on Google and the first six images that come back with the search results are of black mathematicians, 3 of them women.

That is political.

Nothing wrong with female or black mathematicians, the more the better, but that's not how it went down.

If I worked at Google and they asked me to code that, I would have said, "Sure, I can do that", which would be a non-political decision, but whoever decided on how that should be implemented was making a political decision.

> In the US, over 3 million Puerto Ricans are now allowed to migrate to the mainland US (say to DC). The borders are completely open to them. In Europe, similarly, around 20M Romanians are allowed to Sweden. But they don’t

According to Wikipedia, as of 2018 there were 5.8 million Puerto Ricans living stateside. The population of Puerto Rico is around 2.8 million. There are more than twice as many Puerto Ricans living on the mainland as there are in Puerto Rico.

OK, I see what you're saying, thanks for the clarification.

I guess there is a tendency to overreact and think, "I want the exact opposite of the Bay Area", when what you really want is cheaper rent and a tad less shit on the sidewalk.

This is a false dichotomy. There are hundreds of millions of Americans that live in places that are neither the Bay Area nor the boonies.

In any of the 50 biggest metro areas in the US, there are employment choices for programmers.

"The median 1-bed price in San Francisco last month was $2830, a 20.3% decrease from a year ago. Not only is this drop among the largest yearly decreases Zumper has ever recorded in our history of tracking rental prices, but it was also the first time the median 1-bed price in San Francisco was priced below $3000. These combined trends show just how drastically the market has changed in the nation’s most expensive city to rent."

- https://www.zumper.com/blog/zumper-national-rent-report-octo...

>> In most cases coding is mentally exhausting

I have the opposite experience. Every thing in software development other than the coding is mentally exhausting.

When I'm all-in writing code time stands still, it's just brilliant.

> Ecclesiastes is one of the finest existential works ever

Absolutely agree with that. Ever by Flipper is up there too.

Best coffee you can get for $1.

It still does. Several of them.

I don't know. If I ended up out of the whole deal with two guitars and some golf clubs, maybe time to get a real amp.

Well now you need a guitar amp.

There are places where it is allowed to eat dogs and forbidden to eat pigs.

And I'm pretty sure the arctic explorers both loved and ate their dogs.

I don't agree with you.

I've gone from 0K to 200K in my life and more money is always better, it's more freedom and it's more happiness and there has never been any downside.

Making more money has always made me happier and it's given me the ability to take care of the people I care about.

I want more and if a job comes up tomorrow that will pay me more, I'm there.

> The second crash this year has already started

It was what, a little over 30% drawdown, that's a crash now? I've lived through 5 crashes then, hope to live through a few more.

> with worse unemployment than the great recession of the 1930s

Great Depression, not recession, and nope. During the Great Depression the unemployment rate hit 25% and was over 15% for most of a decade, here's the graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression#/media/File:U....

I agree. We're at 412 ppm outside and there is a long way to go before indoor levels are an environmental issue rather than an HVAC one.

I think I've used it twice in production code over the last 20 years. The first was to traverse a directory tree. I wouldn't write it that way now since there is now a standard library to do what I was doing then. The second was to traverse an object's children logging certain pieces of data from the sub-objects. I didn't design that one, I just wrote it so I don't know if there was a library that would have done it for me. Fun to write though.

Generally, developer interviews are just stand-ins for IQ tests since it is illegal to give a candidate an IQ test. Seeing if someone can easily write a recursive function is a pretty good IQ test.